Author: Pearl Bailey

Quotes

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

- Pearl Bailey

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

- Pearl Bailey

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

- Pearl Bailey

You must change in order to survive.

You must change in order to survive.

- Pearl Bailey

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

- Pearl Bailey

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

- Pearl Bailey

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

- Pearl Bailey

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

- Pearl Bailey

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

- Pearl Bailey

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